Actor Roy Scheider dead at the age of 75

[The Crazy Life That Is Alarick T]

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[Dj Pat]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Roy Scheider, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie "Jaws," has died. He was 75.

Scheider died Sunday at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock, hospital spokesman David Robinson said. The hospital did not release a cause of death.

However, hospital spokeswoman Leslie Taylor said Scheider had been treated for multiple myeloma at the hospital's Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy for the past two years.

He was nominated for an Oscar for best-supporting actor in 1971's "The French Connection" in which he played the police partner of Oscar winner Gene Hackman and for best-actor for 1979's "All That Jazz," the autobiographical Bob Fosse film.

However, he was best known for his role in Steven Spielberg's 1975 film, "Jaws," the enduring classic about a killer shark terrorizing beachgoers and well as millions of moviegoers.

Widely hailed as the film that launched the era of the Hollywood blockbuster, it was also the first movie to earn $100 million at the box office. Scheider starred with Richard Dreyfuss, who played an oceanographer.

In 2005, one of Scheider's most famous lines in the movie — "You're gonna need a bigger boat" — was voted No. 35 on the American Film Institute's list of best quotes from U.S. movies.

That year, some 30 years after "Jaws" premiered, hundreds of movie buffs flocked to Martha's Vineyard, off the southeastern coast of Massachusetts, to celebrate the great white shark.

The island's JawsFest '05 also brought back some of the cast and crew, including screenwriter Carl Gottlieb and Peter Benchley, who wrote the novel that inspired Spielberg's classic. Spielberg, Scheider and Dreyfuss were absent.

Scheider was also politically active. He participated in rallies protesting U.S. military action in Iraq, including a massive New York demonstration in March 2003 that police said drew 125,000 chanting activists.

All that Jazz is one of my all time favorite flick's.
One of the Best Actor's that God gave us, very sad to hear of his passing.

*phm*

[MEP]

RIP Roy

Jaws is a classic. First "scary" movie I saw. My mom explicitly told me "You kids better not be going to see Jaws" as she dropped us off at the theater. I woke up in the middle of the night screaming and crying and confessed.

[Chuck P]

Jaws was an absolute classic IMO as well.....

[Fletch]

RIP to the man who caught the Great White Shark!

[Mike Barnes]

One of Roy Scheider's best movies(At least to me/LOL), Is, The' '7 Ups', From The early 70's, Roy Scheider put in much work as, 'Sonny Grasso', In,'The French Connection', Which was a true story, About, The New York Mafia,

Trying to move weight in From Marsellies,France to New York, Via a Drug Kingpin from France in 1961, There were/are, Only a few actors on the cinema Circuit, Who have the talent, And, Discipline, To portray a character, In regards to authenticity, I'm very proud to build, That Roy Scheider, Perfected the craft of acting, To the highest degree.
Much Respect
Mike Barnes

[TAB.]

One of Roy Scheider's best movies(At least to me/LOL), Is, The' '7 Ups',

Much Respect
Mike Barnes

That's the role I associate him with, most. The Chase n Crash scene was one of the best. Always thought of escaping a head-on like that. LOL!

[mhd]

the french connection and seven ups were great, i liked roy also for his role in marathon man and for sorcerer and the sequel to 2001 a space odyssey: 2010

[housewithme]

Maybe now I can go back into the water, RIP, Mr. Scheider.

[VEESTER]

R.I.P. One movie that quickly come to mind that he was in is "52 Pick Up"
with Vanity.

[Mike Barnes]

Tab, The Car chase seen in,'The 7 Ups, Took place on The George Washington/Bridge(Going from The Bronx, To New Jersey on 95 South), I Don't know if Roy Scheider, Drove the car, during the chase seen(Like, Steve McQueen did in, 'Bullit', In 1968/LOL), But, That Chase seen in, 'The 7 Ups',

Was right on time(Along with the car chase seen from 'The French Connection', in 1971, Which, I heard was un-rehearsed, William Freidken(The Director of, 'The French Connection', Mentioned in an interview, That The car chase seen was done in 1 take(And, If William Freidken, Would have directed, The chase seen in, 'The French Connection', Today, William Friedken would have been doing a push upnorth with his/LOL).
Much Respect
Mike Barnes

[The Buddy Love Show]

the french connection and seven ups were great, i liked roy also for his role in marathon man and for sorcerer and the sequel to 2001 a space odyssey: 2010

Sorcerer is a BIG TIME slept on movie

your Kung Fu is good

[P-Flipp]

He had a wonderful screen persona.Poised,confident and handled things!Farewell!

[The Buddy Love Show]

Tab, The Car chase seen in,'The 7 Ups, Took place on The George Washington/Bridge(Going from The Bronx, To New Jersey on 95 South), I Don't know if Roy Scheider, Drove the car, during the chase seen(Like, Steve McQueen did in, 'Bullit', In 1968/LOL), But, That Chase seen in, 'The 7 Ups',

Was right on time(Along with the car chase seen from 'The French Connection', in 1971, Which, I heard was un-rehearsed, William Freidken(The Director of, 'The French Connection', Mentioned in an interview, That The car chase seen was done in 1 take(And, If William Freidken, Would have directed, The chase seen in, 'The French Connection', Today, William Friedken would have been doing a push upnorth with his/LOL).
Much Respect
Mike Barnes

bwahahahahahhaha

I heard NYPD was NOT happy about that chase scene in the French Connection. They had no permits for that shit.

ahhh memories

[The White Shadow]

That sucks. He was great in the Jaws flicks. RIP.

[JJ11]

How could no one speak of the film he did called
ALL THAT JAZZ

In it , he Dances Death !

RIP

[JJ11]

Check it out
ALL THAT JAZZ
here "BYE BYE LIFE"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNcl0L7eJUY

[JJ11]

Check it out
ALL THAT JAZZ
here "BYE BYE LIFE"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNcl0L7eJUY

Watch the very end of scene on this above clip.
Deep!

Here is another , which has one of the scenes with "On Broadway" by George Benson.

[JJ11]

Watch the very end of scene on this above clip.
Deep!

Here is another , which has one of the scenes with "On Broadway" by George Benson.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F96_PyFEHBM&feature=related

[The Buddy Love Show]

i guess sitting back and gathering a paragraph worth of thoughts together was is too much to ask

[Fletch]

bwahahahahahhaha

I heard NYPD was NOT happy about that chase scene in the French Connection. They had no permits for that shit.

ahhh memoriesThat was done under the B train (West End Line), which is now the D!

[The Buddy Love Show]

That was done under the B train (West End Line), which is now the D!

Shot some of it in (the burning) Bushwick as well

[mjoseph]

my brother used to forcefeed me 'blue thunder' daily (the vcr was a new gadget then)

to this day im watching the sky for a minigun :shudder:

r.i.p

[The Crazy Life That Is Alarick T]

i guess sitting back and gathering a paragraph worth of thoughts together was is too much to ask

:rofl: